Innovation Excellence

JUNE 27, 2019

I was working with a pharmaceutical distribution business that needed to innovate, and fast. He was also frustrated that his senior managers, who he described as excellent operations people, were failing to come up with. Drugs were coming off-patent, and industry forces were going to change who made money and how.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Many of these leaders possess prior experience in managing public companies, and they generate exceptional returns for both themselves and the PE-backed companies that they are recruited to head. What you really do need is knowledge of that specific industry, whether it’s pharmaceutical or manufacturing or hospitality or rocket science.”

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

” A good first step is to make managers and recruiters aware of the need for class diversity in the first place so that any talent-related decisions are made with this in mind. However, in contrast to IT, engineering, health, and education, we find more established-elite CEOs in management consultancies.”

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2021

As our society ages, the importance of self-care will only increase, so it’s perhaps no surprise that a recent report from pharmaceutical company GSK revealed that 80% of Europeans believe it’s their own responsibility to manage their health. Low investment in preventative healthcare.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

model, which is supported by the Estonian government, demonstrates the paths to new business models that focus not only on providing services, but also on fostering a collaborative platform for all to innovate. The E-Residency initiative and its succeeding 2.0

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2015

The second example, from a pharmaceutical company, states their purpose is “to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases.” They discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines. There is no clarity here. ” What does this company do? For whom do they do it?

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pfizer, the multinational pharmaceutical giant, has become increasingly intentional about shaping its culture. They embody our humanity and innovative spirit, and are determined to tackle some of the most pressing health care challenges of our time. Feedback from the survey helps hold managers and leaders accountable.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, the research also highlights the significance of diverse educational, industrial, and organizational backgrounds among managers and board members in fostering innovation in research and development (R&D), thereby generating both economic and social value. ” . ”

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Gayhardt states that Hong Kong is already increasing its use of advanced fraud detection, biometric facial recognition, and other innovative AI technologies due to the pandemic. Clothing retailers, restaurants and grocery stores, and even some pharmaceutical products have all seen delays in 2020 as well.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

” There is an implicit hope that when people – especially managers – hear great words, they will start to exhibit great behavior. The pharmaceutical company is famous for its Credo, which was written many years ago and reflected the sincere values of the leaders of the company at that time.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Programs like the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Unfortunately, my gesture was rebuffed and the union decided to strike.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. And yet management sponsorship is crucial for any ambitious initiative.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A few years back, I coached a national pharmaceutical team with distinct geographies. Drawing from his own extensive background and 10 years of research, Douglas innovated the concept of “Team Quotient” (TQ). Team meetings become interesting and rewarding. It takes effort, energy and time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals. …and how training can make them even better ones.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

In a capitalist democracy, government should not be involved with what we in the private sector do, which is managing time to manage money. All it takes is the desire to be innovative and creative in tackling a problem. Entrepreneurship. You needn’t work for yourself – or even be working at all – to be an entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. However, these prescriptions for innovation at Roivant have also led to some unexpected challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. ” There were other limitations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. How the most innovative providers are creating value. These scenarios are seldom contemplated in institutional management of conflicts of interest. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Lipitor story seems to be about a managed end: the highly anticipated demise (due to the expiration of its patent last Nov. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward. 30) of a blockbuster prescription drug. But they have fundamentally more in common than meets the eye.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

Why the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Booming in Japan. Philips’s range of ventilation, sleep therapy, and monitoring equipment is an ideal part of such a plan, as Danny Risberg, general manager of Philips Healthcare in Japan, disclosed in a recent presentation. One project is a remote intensive-care patient management program.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Obama reportedly felt the situation called for someone who could set priorities and help government agencies and private sector organizations of all kinds to collaborate and innovate. Top-down management simply will not get the innovation part of the job done.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. But why not?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition. How talent management is changing. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation. That’s up from 86% last year, and the trend makes sense. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

That is good news for managers and investors. While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. Profits are up.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

We then tested the model using quantitative data about the incidence of safety-related errors in the context of pharmaceutical drugs. We analyzed 146 pharmaceutical firms between 1997 and 2004 for a quantitative look at this pattern of learning and forgetting after safety-based errors.

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